Question

What was the Balfour Declaration?

Answer 1

The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British government during World War I on November 2, 1917. In the declaration, British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour expressed the government's support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, then under Ottoman rule. The declaration was later incorporated into the terms of the British Mandate for Palestine, which governed the territory until the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.